He's saying that mathematically speaking, any cube scramble can be solved in 20 moves or less, not that it's impossible to make any number of unproductive moves you like on the way to the solution.
A million times this. DIU checkpoints are already an unconstitutional menace. Now that we an see they're also the camel's nose, can we get rid of them?
after supplying the answers to four easy-to-guess questions from consumer credit bureau Equifax
The irony is that those four "easy to guess" questions have kept me locked out of Equifax (and the others) because I can't guess the answers even though they're about me!
The problem is that I have moved a lot in my lifetime. So much that I honestly don't remember most of my prior addresses, and one of those questions is always to present you with a list of three partially obfuscated addresses and you have to pick which one is a prior residence.
As a result, I have never been able to use the websites for these companies (nor can I get my free annual credit report).
"but you can understand this driver’s problem and forgive this minor risk"
No, I really can't. There's another exit following the one they failed to plan for. The right thing for them to do is not to put other drivers at risk (however "minor"), but to use the next exit instead.
That argument only makes sense if there is no traffic in the road ahead. If there is traffic, then motorcycles aren't escaping the proximity of cars, they are just endangering themselves and others for no reason aside from their own sense of entitlement.
"his fortune means that he is more or less immune to lobbying dollars."
Perhaps, but irrelevant. His person interests already align with the interests of the biggest pools of lobbying dollars.
"He has also demonstrated some skill in amassing his fortune."
No, he has not. His wealth is not something he earned.
"Those who have some personal knowledge of him say that the things he is saying in public are simply designed to attract votes and don't reflect his personal opinions or intentions."
And this hits the head of my biggest problem with Trump: he is a bald-faced, transparent, unapologetic liar.
The Judge says "if Congress wishes to enact protections that exceed the Fourth Amendment baseline."
There's the problem. My plain reading of the fourth amendment makes it very clear to me that the "third party doctrine" violates the fourth amendment baseline.
It would be one thing if the doctrine just meant that someone who knows something about me is free to tell others. But the government insists that what it really means is that the government can legally compel those someones to give up that information in situations where could not legally compel me.
But neither of those are compelling reasons. I don't have a FB account, and I am neither silenced nor am I cut off from any organizations. Of course, I deliberately avoid web sites that require a Facebook account (easy to do), and if I have to do business with any organizations that require FB for their online stuff, I do my business with them over the phone or in person.
It's slightly less convenient, but "slightly less convenient" is a far cry from "difficult".
Re: Re: What constitutes an unconstitutional stop?
"Civilian GPS is deliberately incorrect"
This used to be true, but they stopped doing this years ago. Now the way it works is that civilian GPS and military GPS have the same amount of accuracy, but the US gov can flip a switch to turn the randomization back in specific areas. They do this to degrade the civilian GPS in battlefields.
Just because no previous phones had slide-to-unlock (although there were a couple of previous non-phone handheld computers that had something very like it) doesn't mean the thing is patentable.
First, you can't patent ideas as such. You patent specific implementations of ideas. Second, those implementations, even if never seen before, have to be not obvious to the average practitioner in the field. I think that nonobviousness is what is being debated.
Why are they forced to create a FB account? Companies that require Facebook simply don't get my business, and cities surely still let you conduct your business over the phone or in person.
Why should it be taken down? Last I checked, nobody was being forced to use it, and pretty much everybody who cares is well aware that it's a security and privacy nightmare. If they choose to keep using it anyway, why stop them?
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Re: Re: Re: No, maximum would be infinity
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My best time
On the post: John Yoo's Legal Rationale: Warrantless Surveillance Is Basically A DUI Checkpoint, But For Terrorism
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On the post: IRS Tool Designed To Protect Identity Theft Victims -- Exposes Users To Identity Theft
Oh, Irony
The irony is that those four "easy to guess" questions have kept me locked out of Equifax (and the others) because I can't guess the answers even though they're about me!
The problem is that I have moved a lot in my lifetime. So much that I honestly don't remember most of my prior addresses, and one of those questions is always to present you with a list of three partially obfuscated addresses and you have to pick which one is a prior residence.
As a result, I have never been able to use the websites for these companies (nor can I get my free annual credit report).
On the post: 2002 Legal Rationale For Warrantless Surveillance: Because The President Can Do It, Shut Up
Re: The law is the law
On the post: Google's Self-Driving Car Causes First Accident, As Programmers Try To Balance Human Simulacrum And Perfection
Re: The unspoken bargain.
No, I really can't. There's another exit following the one they failed to plan for. The right thing for them to do is not to put other drivers at risk (however "minor"), but to use the next exit instead.
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Re: Software patents
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Re: Whatever else
Perhaps, but irrelevant. His person interests already align with the interests of the biggest pools of lobbying dollars.
"He has also demonstrated some skill in amassing his fortune."
No, he has not. His wealth is not something he earned.
"Those who have some personal knowledge of him say that the things he is saying in public are simply designed to attract votes and don't reflect his personal opinions or intentions."
And this hits the head of my biggest problem with Trump: he is a bald-faced, transparent, unapologetic liar.
On the post: Federal Judge Says Third Party Doctrine A Perfectly 'Good Law;' No Warrants Needed To Obtain Cell Location Records
The nut of the issue
There's the problem. My plain reading of the fourth amendment makes it very clear to me that the "third party doctrine" violates the fourth amendment baseline.
It would be one thing if the doctrine just meant that someone who knows something about me is free to tell others. But the government insists that what it really means is that the government can legally compel those someones to give up that information in situations where could not legally compel me.
On the post: Puritanical Facebook Censors Parody Publication, Makes Appeal Process A Threat
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It's slightly less convenient, but "slightly less convenient" is a far cry from "difficult".
On the post: Court Monitor Finds NYPD Still Performing Unconstitutional Stops
Re: Re: What constitutes an unconstitutional stop?
This used to be true, but they stopped doing this years ago. Now the way it works is that civilian GPS and military GPS have the same amount of accuracy, but the US gov can flip a switch to turn the randomization back in specific areas. They do this to degrade the civilian GPS in battlefields.
On the post: Appeals Court Dumps Apple's Slide To Unlock Patent, Tosses Massive Jury Award Against Samsung In The Trash
Re: Novel
First, you can't patent ideas as such. You patent specific implementations of ideas. Second, those implementations, even if never seen before, have to be not obvious to the average practitioner in the field. I think that nonobviousness is what is being debated.
On the post: Appeals Court Dumps Apple's Slide To Unlock Patent, Tosses Massive Jury Award Against Samsung In The Trash
Re: People like autocorrect?
On the post: Puritanical Facebook Censors Parody Publication, Makes Appeal Process A Threat
Re: Why do people still use Facebook?
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